BELLS will ring out in King’s Stanley to celebrate St George’s Day at 6pm this evening. St George’s Church is one of hundreds across the country taking part in the celebrations today, Wednesday. Campaign group Ringing for England has arranged
GRANDMOTHER Sheila Goodwin, 72, splashed out to raise more than £400 for Sport Relief.Sheila, who taught PE at Wycliffe College for 22 years until she retired almost 10 years ago, took part in a sponsored mile swim.Millions of people across the
A RUSSIAN sea captain may have hanged himself in his cargo ship cabin at Sharpness Docks because he feared sailing home in “horrendous” storms, a coroner said. Alexandera Budishchev, 53, of St Petersburg, and his crew, endured a nightmare voyage
Gloucestershire County Council will be holding a fostering and adoption drop-in event at Charlton Kings library, Church Street, GL53 8AR on Thursday 24th April. People are invited to come along and have a chat with members of the team about fostering
POLICE are warning businesses to be on the look-out after a couple attempted to buy £100s worth of gift tokens with a bright yellow payment card. A man and a woman attempted to buy a £100 B&Q gift token and a ‘Hello Kitty’ bag from W H Smiths
LUKE Smith smashed his way into his parents’ home and then spat at a female police officer who arrested him, a court was told. Gloucester Crown Court heard on Monday, April 7, that Smith, 29, committed the offences when he became homeless after
Calor League Division One South and West Shortwood United 2 Godalming Town 0 HOT-SHOT striker Duncan Culley bagged a brace as Shortwood moved back into play-off contention, writes Jim Cunneen. Wood’s top scorer took his personal tally
STROUD author Peter Kilby kept quiet about the childhood abuse he suffered for decades. But Peter, 72, who has lived in Cashes Green for 45 years, was eventually persuaded to write his story and enter it in a competition – and his incredible tale
THE Cotswold club sent an impressive 6 teams to this 80 team opening tournament of the season. The trip up the M4 proved very successful for the club with 5 placings out of the 6 teams entered, a tremendous perfomance as the teams contained many dogs
IT was the first time Wycliffe Prep School had entered the tournament as a squad of players and everyone was very excited.Those going had committed to squash over the two terms and shown sufficient improvement to warrant selection for the tournament.Leading
A DOG walker stumbled across the grisly remains of a mutilated badger in woodland off Pensile Road in Nailsworth last Tuesday, April 8. The find, a carcass which had the front legs missing, has been reported to the police, and the Gloucestershire
KAREN welcomed a new member.Details were given of various activities including a visit to Hobbs House Bakery in Chipping Sodbury.Two members accepted an invitation from France Lynch W.I. to their eighty second birthday party on May 14.There were several
STROUD Lip-Reading Group is celebrating its future as a grant of £1,593 from Stroud Town Council's Community Support Fund has been received by the Gloucestershire Deaf Association (GDA).The money will be used to promote the lip-reading classes
STROUD Quakers served a ‘fasting lunch’ around a table laid for a meal in the open air on Stroud High Street yesterday. Members of Stroud Quakers sat around the set table but went without food or drink for the day. The action was in solidarity
ON April 2, we were pleased and proud to be celebrating the club’s Ruby Anniversary, which almost 70 members attended.The evening commenced with Daphne Turner, founder, and long- time member gave an enlightening history of the club’s past
ELECTIONS for parish, town and district elections in the Stroud district will now all be held at the same time every four years to avoid extra costs incurred from new Government legislation. Until now a third of the 51 councillors at Stroud District
A BUSY few months for our WI. Meetings are well attended with Ann our President in the chair. Local walks, scrabble, singing, craft sessions and lunch club enjoyed by many of our members. Our craft ladies are busy planning a craft display
LOCAL Stroud artist and classic car enthusiast, John Pratt, has recently completed a commission for a person 'down-under'. The painting shows the car owned by this person in Australia, an Allard Palm-Beach Mark 1, which was the Allard Motor Company's
BIRTHDAYS with a zero on the end can have a strange effect on people. They either want to party very hard or else sit in a darkened room and pretend that it is just not happening. Turning 30 can be a trauma for some people – are you still classed
STROUD MP Neil Carmichael has welcomed figures showing that unemployment in the district fell to 1.8 per cent in March. Despite disappointing news in the constituency for Dursley based company Lister Petter, the number of unemployed claimants was
